Tonights Sunset

The sunset tonight was rather pretty and looking at it gave me a longing for some quiet peaceful moments. Time when I can stay at home without having to run errands. Time when I could sit on the porch in the rocker, just watching birds flying from tree to tree while the sky darkens into navy blue.
I know by next week the house will be quiet and then I will be complaining about how much I miss everyone. We are a funny lot, we humans.
It always amazes me when people are always on the run, never spending an entire week home, as though plagued by some bug of discontentment. Maybe it's that no one really wants quiet, the time when we can look deeply into our lives and the how and why of it all.
Shopping, lessons, etc all keep us so busy we have no time to think about the serious matters in life.
No time to pray, to sing, to contemplate, to dream, to plan or to count our blessings in their fullness.